Alain Lompo

Dylan's Oracle Business Intelligence BlogThis blog is about Oracle Business Intelligence platform and applications. It covers technology topics from the perspective of a seasoned BI development manager and architect.

EAI Technology: About Disintegrating ApplicationsFollow one EAI Consultant with vast experience in design and development of integration solutions as she provides extensive insight into the technologies, concepts, and EAI methodology, while ensuring harmony across and within business elements.

Enterprise Design Strategy: Aligning IT & Business PracticesJurgens Pieterse is an Enterprise Design Strategist. His mission is to streamline a business enterprise as a whole system to create value for shareholders, customers and employees. With a strong background in business process engineering, enterprise architecture, and IT investment planning he shares unique perspectives and firsthand experiences to make the marriage between IT and Business work. He writes on diverse topics which includes the implementation of IT strategies, demands on IT leadership, and emerging technology trends.

ERP System Acquisition Project PlanningThere is any number of published methodologies on how to successfully acquire and implement ERP systems. However, approximately 65% of all ERP implementations continue to fail to some degree. A project is currently underway at Adaptive Growth to develop a Guide that provides a unique approach to prevent such failures.

Exploit Prevention Labs BlogAs Chief Researcher for Exploit Prevention Labs, I come across some really interesting bad-guy behavior patterns that on the whole don't bode well for the future of a trusted Internet. I'll be posting my thoughts on some of the most interesting stuff I find to this blog. Full Disclosure. In 2007 Exploit Prevention Labs was acquired by AVG, so now I'm Chief Research Officer for AVG.

Future StatesMy mission has been to "inject transparency and simplicity into how projects are defined, approved and delivered." Why? Transparency cures many forms of confusion. Simplicity makes the cure accessible to as many people as possible. Projects function as building blocks of the future. This blog is a discussion of the ideas and observations that infuse that mission.
Future States by Demian Entrekin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.Based on a work at it.toolbox.com.

Future Views: OutsourcingThis blog will look at today's outsourcing trends, technologies, and business drivers. I'll try to project what it all means, where things are going, and what the future of the extended enterprise looks like.

Hacking Cloud ComputingCloud Computing has fundamentally changed how we view utility computing, add a little Google hacking and other hacking methods and we end up some very interesting things going out on there in terms of what people are sharing. This blog is about the cloud, about data leakage, and comes with a solid request not to be a bad security engineer.

Interface Integration for Enterprise SystemsDiscussing the future of UI in relation to integration of different software products in order to provide a complete business process solution. My goal is to foster a lively discussion surrounding portals, gadgets, mashups, composite apps, and any other UI approach we may dream up that will hopefully lead to new and exciting enterprise products that bring value to our customers.

Investigating CRM Software SolutionsThis blog will investigate popular CRM topics, practices, processes, and definitely CRM vendors. Every business is different, and there is much more than CRM software to CRM, and this CRM blog will investigate such things.

Keeping an Eye on Microsoft BIMicrosoft is pushing into the BI marketplace at an alarming rate. From new product launches such as SQL 2008 and Performance Point Server to recent acquisitions such as ProClarity, Microsoft seeks to take on the big guys of BI who themselves have been recent targets of acquisition. This blog intends to monitor the successes and failures of the Microsoft BI strategy compared to other Tier 1 players, as well as provide real world, tactical approaches for successful BI implementations.

Keystones and RivetsTrying to enhance the reputation of IT professionals (and hopefully getting them more budget) by measuring and communicating the value of IT in ways the business can easily understand. Enabling business and IT to talk the same language using simple pictures of the relationships between IT resources, business services, and data flows.

Less is MoreBlog covers everyday topics in Software Engineering and universal ones in Computational Science.
Through this blog I promote my belief that even in software
"Beauty in design results from purity of function."
("Universal Principles of Design", by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, 2003, Art, pg. 90)